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That's the only way to introduce some tension.
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
That's the only way to introduce some tension.
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Nothing to say luv?
December 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Nothing to say luv?
Most of the children (and many others) were evaccuated from Ukraine and it still receives supplies.
December 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Most of the children (and many others) were evaccuated from Ukraine and it still receives supplies.
It's not a war - it's a genocide worked upon a uniquely captive population of an illegally occupied territory.
December 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It's not a war - it's a genocide worked upon a uniquely captive population of an illegally occupied territory.
That version is from a Nineteenth Century sermon the oldest known version is 12th Century and specifically meant the opposite - that family ties are stronger than baptismal water.
December 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
That version is from a Nineteenth Century sermon the oldest known version is 12th Century and specifically meant the opposite - that family ties are stronger than baptismal water.
The original version was that blood ties are stronger than the water of baptism.
December 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The original version was that blood ties are stronger than the water of baptism.
Yes, anyone can say "common knowledge" - it amounts to nothing.
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Yes, anyone can say "common knowledge" - it amounts to nothing.
Are you pretending to be simple?
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Are you pretending to be simple?
"Common knowledge" is very easy to say.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Common knowledge" is very easy to say.
Supporting genocide has consequences.
Consequences that Democrat leadership were fully aware would hand the White House to Trump long enough beforehand to change direction.
Consequences that Democrat leadership were fully aware would hand the White House to Trump long enough beforehand to change direction.
December 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Supporting genocide has consequences.
Consequences that Democrat leadership were fully aware would hand the White House to Trump long enough beforehand to change direction.
Consequences that Democrat leadership were fully aware would hand the White House to Trump long enough beforehand to change direction.
Have you heard of victim blaming?
Supporting genocide will always lose you votes - especially with the relatives of the victims.
Supporting genocide will always lose you votes - especially with the relatives of the victims.
December 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Have you heard of victim blaming?
Supporting genocide will always lose you votes - especially with the relatives of the victims.
Supporting genocide will always lose you votes - especially with the relatives of the victims.
...wars. Sixty years ago, Fidel Castro stayed in Harlem and met with Malcolm X at the Hotel Theresa. The Black Alliance for Peace, founded three years ago, seeks to organise people of African heritage and to restore their traditional support for radical politics and opposition to US aggression.
December 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
...wars. Sixty years ago, Fidel Castro stayed in Harlem and met with Malcolm X at the Hotel Theresa. The Black Alliance for Peace, founded three years ago, seeks to organise people of African heritage and to restore their traditional support for radical politics and opposition to US aggression.
Sorry, third look I found it - there was another paragraph, though:
Margaret pointed out that the African-American population has a proud history of opposing US foreign policy. Black America opposed war in Vietnam and Iraq, and consistently questioned the justifications put forward for these...
Margaret pointed out that the African-American population has a proud history of opposing US foreign policy. Black America opposed war in Vietnam and Iraq, and consistently questioned the justifications put forward for these...
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Sorry, third look I found it - there was another paragraph, though:
Margaret pointed out that the African-American population has a proud history of opposing US foreign policy. Black America opposed war in Vietnam and Iraq, and consistently questioned the justifications put forward for these...
Margaret pointed out that the African-American population has a proud history of opposing US foreign policy. Black America opposed war in Vietnam and Iraq, and consistently questioned the justifications put forward for these...
Pretending that people who vote for Trump (I think that's what you're getting at) do so because they're stupid is self defeating - you're not going to talk people round if you've given up on them as morons.
Something has changed but I'd blame the media environment rather than average intelligence.
Something has changed but I'd blame the media environment rather than average intelligence.
December 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Pretending that people who vote for Trump (I think that's what you're getting at) do so because they're stupid is self defeating - you're not going to talk people round if you've given up on them as morons.
Something has changed but I'd blame the media environment rather than average intelligence.
Something has changed but I'd blame the media environment rather than average intelligence.
Its, like, not there at all.
Margaret Kimberley's contribution appears half way down but it doesn't include the text in the screenshot.
You must have got it from somewhere...
What's the source?
Margaret Kimberley's contribution appears half way down but it doesn't include the text in the screenshot.
You must have got it from somewhere...
What's the source?
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Its, like, not there at all.
Margaret Kimberley's contribution appears half way down but it doesn't include the text in the screenshot.
You must have got it from somewhere...
What's the source?
Margaret Kimberley's contribution appears half way down but it doesn't include the text in the screenshot.
You must have got it from somewhere...
What's the source?